June 17, 2025
All Saints Catholic School, 630 Lime City Road, Rossford, OH 43460
$60 (Lunch included)
5 Contact hours (Certificate provided)
Teachers:
Are you struggling to keep your students engaged?
Are you feeling stretched too thin to teach the way you truly want to?
Administrators:
Wouldn’t it be a game-changer to keep passionate, well-trained teachers from walking out the door?
Are difficult staff conversations draining your time and emotional energy?
Counselors:
Do you wish you had a framework for building trust with parents from the very first interaction?
How often do miscommunications with families undermine your counseling goals?
Join us at Teach Lead Thrive!
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Program Details
Teach Lead Thrive: Northwest Ohio Educator Professional Development Day
June 17, 2025, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm, at All Saints Catholic School, Rossford, OH
Goal: To provide educators with practical, actionable strategies and hands-on workshops to build educator skills.
Format: 60-minute breakout sessions
Agenda
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am | Check-in and Welcome |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | Panel Discussion: Lessons in Adaptability: What the Best Educators Do Differently Discover what sets exceptional educators apart! In this energizing conversation, local administrators, counselors, and teachers share real stories of how they lead with purpose, stay resilient, and keep their passion alive in today’s ever-changing education landscape. You will be inspired, connected, and ready to take your own practice to the next level! |
| 10:15 am – 11:15 am | Breakout Sessions DETAILS BELOW 1. Creating a Positive School Culture with Positive Teacher Language 2. Having the Hard Conversations 3. Mindfulness in the Classroom |
| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Breakout Sessions 1. From Overwhelmed to Recentered 2. AI-AI-OH, NO! Enforcing Ethical AI Use in Today’s Classroom 3. Cultivating Learner Agency in the K12 Classroom 4. Bullying Antidote – Teaching Kindness and Other Strategies to Prevent Bullying |
| 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm | Taco Bar Lunch |
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Breakout Sessions 1. Parents as Partners 2. Using the B.A.N.K.S. System to Foster Meaningful Relationships in Education 3. Making Phonics Fun: Using Multisensory Materials to Expand Student Learning |
| 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm | Wrap-up: Celebration and Certificates We will end with celebrating YOU — your dedication, your growth, and your passion for making a difference. Stick around for some exciting raffles, receive your certificate of participation, and leave recharged, inspired, and ready to lead change in your classroom and beyond! |
Featured Presenters
Kristine Malik, PhD
Consultant/Coach Curriculum, Instruction & Educational Technology
Anthony Bronaugh Sr., M.Ed.
Licensed Behavior Analyst (MI); Board Certified Behavior Analyst (OH)
Paula M. Apostolou, Ed.D
Board-certified Coach; Executive & Business Coaching Specialist; Certified 360 Administrator
Breakout Session Options
We have many exciting sessions to choose from!
Click session titles to see more!
Creating a Positive School Culture with Positive Teacher Language
For: Teachers, Administrators, Conselours, Support Staff
By: Anthony Bronaugh, Sr., M.Ed., BCBA, AB Education & Behavior Consulting
Description: Think about how pleased students are when teachers compliment their work, behavior, or character, and how angry, hurt, or disappointed they often are after teachers’ verbal disapprovals. The goal of this workshop is to show how creating a positive school culture using positive teacher language has a huge impact on how students think, act, and ultimately learn. Come and participate in exercises that include humor to demonstrate the effects that our tone, body language, and selection of words can have on our relationships with students and other educators. I will also address the importance of having a personal mission/vision statement.
Having the Hard Conversations
For: Administrators
By: Dr. Beth Laux, President & CEO, Quest Cultural Solutions
Description: Honest conversations are the foundation of creative, energized, and successful schools. But fostering that dialogue can be challenging, and school leaders often struggle to find the right tone and approach. Using a model developed at Harvard University, this session helps leaders build vital skills for initiating and facilitating challenging conversations. Using simulations and cutting-edge techniques, participants will learn strategies for giving and receiving feedback, understanding other perspectives, and moderating emotions under pressure. Upon completion, participants will be able to use these techniques in their own work, improving communication, performance, and relationships in the workplace and classroom.
Using the B.A.N.K.S. System to Foster Meaningful Relationships in Education
For: Administrators, Teachers, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Deb Cash, Retired Educator, Educational Consultant
Description: BANK stands for 4 Personality types: Blueprint, Action, Nurturer, and
Knowledge. Our Bank in Education Project teaches all to understand
how these personality types can improve communication between
staff, enhance teacher-student relationships, and foster a more inclusive school culture.
During this workshop you will crack your own code and learn a bit about each of the codes pertaining to likes and dislikes.
From Overwhelmed to Recentered
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Dr. Paula Apostolou, Coach & Consultant, RecenterEd Coaching & Consulting
Description: Reclaim your joy in teaching and create more balance in your life using the strategies presented in this workshop. This session is tailored to the unique challenges teachers face, offering self-care strategies that foster wellbeing and revitalization.
AI-AI-OH, NO! Enforcing Ethical AI Use in Today’s Classroom
For: Teachers, Administrators
By: Stehanie Lenkey, Dean of Curriculum, St. Francis de Sales High School
Description: In today’s ever-evolving classroom, it is difficult to decide if a student’s work is their own or was authored by a robot. This session will discuss acceptable AI classroom use and investigate how teachers can detect AI use in student assignments. Some tools discussed may also improve student engagement while enforcing academic integrity. All technology tools discussed are free to educators and are user-friendly.
Cultivating Learner Agency in the K12 Classroom
For: Teachers
By: Dr. Kristine Malik, Consultant & Instructional Coach, KM Educational Consulting
Description:
In this session we’ll define agency, explore its research-backed benefits, and provide practical strategies for offering meaningful voice and choice in your classroom. You’ll also discover techniques to boost student self-regulation and metacognition, vital skills for deeper learning. Leave with actionable steps to transform your classroom into a dynamic, student-centered environment.
Bullying Antidote – Teaching Kindness and Other Strategies to Prevent Bullying
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Penny Meeker Parent Coach & Consultant, BeLove Parenting
Description: Bullying harms the bully, the bullied, and the bystander leading to disrupted learning environments and lowered academic performance. This workshop equips educators to be able to identify, prevent, and intervene with all forms of bullying. You will walk away with classroom activities that promote kindness and empathy and how to integrate anti-bullying strategies with your academic outcomes. The workshop will also introduce a school-wide program to address bullying.
Parents as Partners
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Penny Meeker Parent Coach & Consultant, BeLove Parenting
Description: Engaging parents in their child’s education is essential, yet often challenging. This interactive workshop will help educators explore barriers to effective parent engagement. You will learn how to build trust with parents, reduce barriers, and create partnerships with parents to lead to better outcomes for students.
Making Phonics Fun: Using Multisensory Materials to Expand Student Learning
For: Teachers, Administrators
By: Jenna Stuebs, M.Ed., Reading Specialist, Marysville Schools
Description: This teacher workshop focuses on making phonics instruction engaging and effective by integrating multisensory materials into lessons. Participants will explore a variety of hands-on activities and resources, such as magnetic tiles, engaging manipulatives, and interactive digital tools, that appeal to visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles. Through collaborative activities, teachers will learn how to create dynamic, play-based phonics lessons that encourage students to actively engage with sounds, letters, and word patterns. By tapping into different senses, educators will gain strategies to support diverse learners, foster a love for reading, and enhance retention and fluency in early literacy.
Mindfulness in the Classroom
For: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, Support Staff
By: Jenn McCullough, Owner & Educator, Integration Yoga with Jenn
Description: Focus, relax, and reset! Experience a variety of mindfulness techniques for your benefit and that of your students. Explore how to effectively integrate simple and adaptable practices into your school day. Join Mindfulness Expert, Jenn McCullough, for this engaging and empowering workshop.
Program Sponsors
Three sponsorship levels include: Bronze ($200), Silver ($350) and Gold ($500)